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...Halberstam intended merely to write a pleasant fable of American political life, he would have done well as an entertainer; happily, he has done more than that, and succeeded on both counts. For Levine's uniqueness, his drive as a character, comes not from his charm or his vision or his money, but from his Jewishness. He exudes Jewishness--not the Orthodox-rabbi variety, but the every-day brand, with all the stereotypical strengths and weaknesses. But Levine is not a cardboard man; he snatches up all the stereotypes in himself and twists them, turns them around, shatters them...
Considering the critical importance of the meeting confronting them, the three leaders seemed remarkably nonchalant. Jimmy Carter spent pleasant hours fishing in Wyoming, and Anwar Sadat went swimming in the Suez Canal. Though Menachem Begin stayed behind his desk in Jerusalem, he was working no more than his normal rigorous schedule. All this seemed a strange way for the leaders of the U.S., Egypt and Israel to prepare for the momentous summit conference that convenes this week at Camp David, the secluded presidential retreat in the Maryland hills. Observed one astonished diplomat involved in planning the meeting: "I expected frantic...
...Unions, ironically, have been victimized by their own success in making company-paid pensions, medical insurance, longer vacations and similar fringes universal. Even the sons and daughters of diehard unionists feel they have no need to sign a union card in order to enjoy high pay, generous benefits and pleasant working conditions at big, high-technology firms like IBM, Kodak and Texas Instruments...
...Angeles, while pursuing his party's 1968 presidential nomination, R.F.K. was defeated by Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon Democratic primary, the first loss ever sustained by a Kennedy in a general election. The defender of the faith now tries to even the score. Writes Schlesinger: "Oregon [is] a pleasant, homogeneous, self-contained state filled with pleasant, homogeneous, self-contained people, overwhelmingly white, Protestant and middle class. Even the working class was middle class, with boats on the lakes and weekend cabins in the mountains...
...years the Harvard administration has turned against The Crimson and, to a lesser degree in recent years, the weekly Independent. These are just students, the deans smile, shaking their heads--their views are not to be trusted, for they cannot be as cool-headed as we. Often the most pleasant moments at faculty meetings come when the crowd joins together in good-natured laughter at the latest thrust, by some dean or another, at the folly of the "student media." Condescenison is always in style at Faculty meetings...